Job Demands in a Changing World of Work Impact on Workers' Health and Performance and Implications for Research and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Korunka, Christian (Editor), Kubicek, Bettina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Personnel management.; Economic sociology.; Management.; Industrial and Organizational Psychology.; Human Resource Management.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Consulting, Supervision and Coaching.; Cultural Management.

This book examines the new ways of working and their impact on employees’ well-being and performance that have resulted from a changed world of work. It concentrates on job demands and flexible work emanating from current economic and organizational change, and assesses impact on workers’ health and...

Table of Contents:

• Societal Changes, the Reorganization of Work, and New Job Demands;Bettina Kubicek
• The Intensification of Work;Matea Paškvan & Bettina Kubicek
• The Paradox of Job Autonomy;Bettina Kubicek, Matea Paškvan & Johanna Bunner
• Knowledge in Today’s Working World; Bettina Kubicek & Matea Paškvan
• Flexible Forms of Work: Worker’s Basic Need Satisfaction and Organizational Control mechanisms;Cornelia Gerdenitsch
• The Role of New Demands in Daily Working Life;Roman Prem.-Recommendations for Job Design and the Importance of New Resources;Christian Korunka.